African American lawyer, author, businessman, and politician. Instructor and Dean of Shaw University Law School, 1893-1906. His home was here.
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Begun 1910. Early Negro teacher training school. Named for benefactor. Later used as elementary school. Closed in 1966.
Location: US 1A (North Main Street) in Wake Forest
County: Wake
Original Date Cast: 1963
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This simple provincial house was built before 1820. For some years it was the home of Dr. Calvin Jones, a founder of the North Carolina Medical Society, major-general in the War of 1812 and Grand Master of the Masonic Order in North Carolina. He was for 30 years a trustee of the University of North Carolina.
Baptist; coeducational. Opened as Wake Forest College, 1834. Moved to Winston-Salem, 1956. University since 1967.
Baptist. Founded in 1887 by James A. Campbell as Buie's Creek Academy. A university since 1979.
Opened in 1869, it was first state-supported school in U.S. for African American blind & deaf students. Located on this site 1929-1977.
Established for visually impaired students in 1845 under leadership of John Motley Morehead. Present plant is 3 blocks south.
Established for visually impaired students in 1845 under leadership of John Motley Morehead. Present plant is 500 yards north.
An independent women’s college chartered 1891 as Baptist Female University. Named 1909 for education advocate Thos. Meredith. Campus here since 1926.
Episcopal school for girls. Established 1842 by Rev. Aldert Smede on the site of an earlier Episcopal boys school.